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Went out. he did a 98.2% drive throughç the st. jude medical center. >> we're talking about the eric trump foundation. what about the trump foundation itself. where does that stand? >> you know, i don't know super amounts about the trump foundation but my guess is knowing don mcgann as well as i do and knowing the president-elect as well as i do, they want to give the appearance of no impropriety whatsoever. so when that press release comes out and mr. trump is standing at the podium answering these questions from the mainstream media, you're going to get all of those answers. people are goi...

$250,000 threshold so it's kind of amazing in congress, particularly when we're talking about the house, that he's made a pledge around tacks that its willing to allow 98.2% of americans to pay more by going over -- around this curve, it's more of a curve than a cliff. but i think the issue of the deficit is important. i don't think it's a symbolic gesture. one of the things that we've seen is $200 million we've started carving off the deficit. and the question is the time frame of deficit reduction, right? it's how fast, over what time trajectory do we see health? we've been making improvemen...

Sure about the senate but the house, plan b was a million dollars. that was the threshold and boehner didn't have enough support in his own conference to bring the bill to the floor. is there any reason to think the republicans would go with a lower threshold? >> no. i wouldn't think so. it's almost an entirely symbolic issue. you're not going to raise much revenue by targeting these small groups of people. you can take the top two but you still won't close the deficit doing it for the 250 and up will just reduce the deficit by 10 or 12%. so it's a question at this point of what sort of hollow...

They have to do. and at the end of the day their constituents will decide, are they going to re-elect them. but i'm never going to advocate -- i'm never going to go out there and saw it's okay to raise taxes on any individual. >> this is boehner's problem, right? he can't cut a deal that says 98.2% of americans will continue to have the tax cut that george bush gave them. because 1.2 billion -- >> but this is the thing. what is raising taxes on that 2% going to do? it's not going to help the situation. if you look across this country and there are five states that are -- employment rates are d...

Techb. we stand for a proposition that we don't want to see tax increases and we're unwilling to compromise and the democrats are saying that 98.2% of people will continue to get tax cuts that the republicans -- >> the other issue here, though, is that we can talk about is this impasse. republicans are saying "no" at this or that threshold but the bottom line is if we bet to january 1st and there's no deal the game changes completely and at this point anything republicans vote for, suzy, would be a tax cut? >> this is the irony of what's happening. what happens after january 1st, as you said, ...